In the first wave of laptops running the snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus, MICROSOFT's foray into AI Pcs is underway. Unfortunately, they are launching without the ability to run certain apps, including a number of native Adobe Creative Suite programs.

Some Adobe apps are already optimized for Arm64, but the video editing tools Premiere Pro and After Effects, InDesign and Illustrator were not. 

As reported on its sister site, Windows Central, Aaron Woodman, Vice President of Windows Marketing at Microsoft, says Illustrator and InDesign will receive the native Arm version in 2024/7. Video editors will have to wait longer, as he said these versions "won't arrive until later this year.""

The new Qualcomm chipsets have produced an impressive number of tests and improved battery life, but apps that are not native to Arm that have software flaws have to run emulation that can cause performance problems and occasional glitches." 

While there are apps that do not take much processing power to be able to run through emulation without notice, Adobe programs were not able to run Premiere Pro through Emulation, especially in Premiere Pro and After Effects

according to Windows Central. Apparently, it has changed recently. I got an Asus VivoBook S15 and had not tried the Adobe program. But we tested the effect of Windows Studio and it worked gem.

Windows Central tested the Adobe product and said that the emulated version of Premiere Pro struggled with multiple layers and effects, and the rendering was significantly higher than on Intel devices.

Although they were saying that editing a simple 1080p30fps video was relatively smooth.

With the powerful processing that the Snapdragon chip brings, I imagine that running Adobe programs natively will significantly improve performance. Adobe's competitor, DaVinci Resolve, has an Arm64 native version that runs smoothly on Snapdragon Elite X Pcs. 

Outside of Illustrator and InDesign, we don't know when these new laptops will have access to native versions of Premiere Pro and After Effects. 

Adobe is not the only app that requires a native version. Popular video games like Halo Infinite and Fortnite are not available on microsoft's Copilot+ Pc. Not to mention a function like the co-pilot button, which is a little more than a fidget key.